If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

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Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they...

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they...

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do...

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do...

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing...

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing...

Acclaim is a distraction.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets,...

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets,...

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade...

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade...

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to...

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to...

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is a stimulus.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole...

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole...

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in...

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in...

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing...

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing...